As Afghan soldiers and police get better at maintaining their own security, the role of international troops will evolve.
According to him the presence of international troops was merely symbolic and they were not supposed to use force.
No international troops were killed or injured in the incident.
More than 2,500 international troops have been killed - most of them American.
Powell has estimated there may be a mere 10,000 to 15,000 additional international troops.
Without the means to provide due process of law, Kosovo will never be stable enough for international troops to withdraw.
For a few more months, Haiti could use the security and scrutiny provided by the 1,300 international troops remaining in the country.
Today, the international troops seemed to have been caught in the middle of that battle.
We saw how Australia and the other international troops had kept the peace.
As they wait for international troops to land, the people of this town keep getting robbed and raped.